Let the school begin

During the first week Harry was constantly in the spotlight from other students who wanted to see The Boy Who Lived whether he liked it or not. Mostly he didn't.

And during that week Lucy tried to get to know Harry as much as possible but so that she didn't give herself away. She just asked few questions here and there. Like at the breakfast table in the mornings or during the evening in the common room or so.

Just little questions that might seem harmless and 'just making a conversation' type of questions to others but to Lucy those questions and the answers made her life so much better. She soaked every answer Harry gave her like a sponge. Harry would too occasionally ask questions from her and she would always be over the moon when he did. This is what she had always wished for, getting to know her little brother for real.

Lucy also did try to keep an eye on Harry but she being a third year student and him the first she didn't really see him that much during the days. And she obviously couldn't just abandon Fred and George and start following Harry around. She did love Harry and wanted nothing bad to happen to him but she would not lower herself to become his stalker to prevent that from happening. That would not give very good picture of her. And she trusted Ron to keep him away from too much trouble.

She soon found out that Harry and Ron had indeed become friends and that just made it easy for her to get to know Harry since he was her 'little brother's' friend and it didn't seem suspicious. Fred and George would too throw few comments into their conversations now and then. Mostly to embarrass Ron.

And Harry didn't mind at all the attention he was getting from the triplets since it was not that kind of attention his fame gave him but truly a caring kind of attention. It made him feel like part of the family. Lucy would occasionally tell him in fake whisper something embarrassing about the twins just to get him laugh and get the twins on her tail as she ran away from them while they yelled protests after her. All and all they already acted like they had known each other all their lives.

Though Lucy still did feel like Harry was holding back some information about his life with the Dursley's but she let it slide since she couldn't expect him to open up fully to her after only one week.

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At the end of the first week on Friday Lucy saw how Ron and Harry got before them into the Great Hall on breakfast as during the week they have barely made it in time. Probably got lost in this huge castle. And their achievement showed on their faces. Well it was sooner than what the triplets had in their first year. It took them nearly two and half weeks to get on time at breakfast (probably because they went exploring every free minute).

''Wish McGonagall favored us,'' triplets heard Harry say.

''Keep on dreaming Harry,'' Lucy said as they sat in front of Harry and Ron, ''Momma McG is as strict teacher as it gets. She would rather eat The Sorting Hat with ketchup and pickles, than be seen favoring students.'' Harry groaned at this information.

''So who do you have?'' George then asked as he buttered his third toast.

''Snape,'' Ron answered bitterly.

''Fough huvck, mathe (tough luck, mate),'' Fred said mouth full of food.

''Dude that is disgusting,'' Lucy said as she sat further away from Fred so that none of the food would be spat on her face.

Just then the post owl's arrived. They all remembered Harry's shock when he first witnessed it. Normally Harry's white owl, Hedwig, would only come to see her owner, maybe even get a piece of toast, but she would not bring any letters. Until now.

Harry was really excited over one letter as he was opening it which made Lucy wonder why.

''Who send it?'' Ron asked

''Hagrid. Can I borrow your quill?'' Harry said. Ron picked his quill from his bag and gave it to Harry who wrote something at the back of the letter and then gave it back to Hedwig who then flew away.

''Got a little tea invitation, did you?'' Lucy asked casually as she took a sip from her juice.

''Yes, can't wait,'' Harry said excitedly.

''Yeah, we were there once too,'' Fred said

''Yeah and haven't been ever since because you lighted his bed on fire,'' Lucy said remembering how Hagrid got the reputation of drunk spell casting with his pink umbrella.

''It was George,'' Fred defended pointing at his twin who had offended look on his face.

''Fred, you and I both know how I can always tell you two apart so please stop trying to confuse me when you only end up embarrassing yourself,'' Lucy said with a sigh and continued to drink her juice.

''It's true. They do try to confuse Lucy but it always backfires at their own faces,'' Ron whispered to Harry.

''How does she tells them apart?'' Harry asked

''She has probably spent so much time with them so she knows them through and through,'' Ron answered with a shrug. Harry seemed to settle with this answer and continued to look at the triples' usual morning banter.

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At the end of next week later Harry was sulking at the breakfast table, while Ron was stuffing his face full of food.

''Why so down?'' Lucy asked as the triplets sat down. That only made Harry hit his head on the table.

''Okay, now I'm really worried,'' Lucy said.

''We have flying lessons with Slytherins,'' Ron answered.

''Oh, I see. Wait, no I don't see. What's the problem there?'' Lucy said confused.

''Harry's afraid he's going to embarrass himself,'' Ron said as he put some bacon in his mouth.

''I will. I have never flown before. I'll humiliate myself before I even rise from the ground,'' Harry said as his head was on the table.

''You're over thinking this. Flying is easy. Just follow you instincts,'' Lucy encouraged him and started eating her breakfast.

''I mean come on, with our genes you can't be bad at flying,'' Lucy thought.

Soon the owl's came once again and Neville Longbottom, first year Gryffindor, was opening his new Remembrall which was soon snatched by Draco Malfoy, slimy Slytherin. Harry and Ron were both immediately up on their feet ready to defend their friend. But they didn't have to do anything since Professor McGonagall came just in time to break up the upcoming fist fight.

They soon went to their own lessons. The triplets had History of magic (where they tried to not to do pranks but failed miserably. They turned Professor Binns' hat into a pair of bunny ears, which he didn't even notice as he continued his lesson but the whole class sure did) while Harry and Ron went to their very first flying lesson.

After the day the triplets were relaxing in the common room after their long and boring day (Binns still hadn't noticed the ears) when Oliver Wood their quidditch captain ran at them, huge smile on his face.

The triplets all played in their house team. The twins were the unbeatable Beaters and Lucy was one of the three Chasers, the other two were Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell. Oliver was their Keeper. Only one they were missing was a Seeker.

You…pant…never…pant…guess…pant…what,'' Oliver said in between breaths.

''Oliver take a deep breath and then start over,'' Lucy said to him. Oliver did as she said and then the huge smile reappeared.

''I found perfect seeker,'' he said. That got the triplets' interest

''You did?'' Fred asked

''Who?'' George asked

Oliver lowered his voice a little and then whispered,

''Harry Potter,''

Oh crap!

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feeling by removing Alicia Spinnet from the team. But I figured that 'hey Lucy grew up with the twins so she should be at least as good flyer as them and she's the daughter of James Potter so she has to be good' so I made her be in the team. I thought that Alicia never did anything too noticeable so it wouldn't change the story too much even if she's not there.

So sorry if that hurt someone

Love you all

Snow